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Thetford Landowner's 'Wall' To Come Down

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb

Published October 2, 2015 at 8:35 AM EDT

After nearly a year of back and forth disputes, the town of Thetford has finally convinced former gubernatorial candidate and longtime resident Ruth Dwyer to take down a wall in her yard.

She constructed the 24-foot-high wall to block her view of a newly constructed home across the street, but the town says the structure violates zoning rules.

As part of an agreement created during court-ordered mediation, Dwyer has agreed to remove the structure by November 1.

For this week's Regional Report, VPR's Mitch Wertlieb spoke with Valley News reporter Maggie Cassidy about this issue. Read the Valley News coverage here.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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